Avanguardia Russa: Esperienze di un Mondo Nuovo / Russian Avant-Garde: New World Experience
Softcover
2011 · Milano
by Barbieri, Giuseppe and Silvia Burini
Milano: Cinisello Balsamo. Silvana / Intesa Sanpaolo, 2011. Softcover. VG- (Unused but with a bump to lower right corner covers/pages; light yellowing to cover edges). White illustrated wraps. 167 pp. Color and bw illustrations. In Italian and English. Catalog of an exhibition of 85 works from Russian regional museums, juxtaposed with Russian icons from the Intesa Sanpaolo Collection. This seqence of masterpieces is related to the transfiguring experience of the Russian icon and flanked by an extraordinary collection of propaganda textiles, never before exhibited in the West and produced in the wake of the Russian avant-garde. Main texts in Italian with various summaries in English. Plate annotations in Italian with partial descriptions in English. A beautiful catalogue. The exhibition was mounted at the Gallerie d'Italia Palazzo Leoni Montanari in Vicenza, November 2011 to February 2012. (Inventory #: 154586)